Strange Enemies - Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia

Informationen zum Autor Aparecida Vilaça is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. She is a co-editor of Native Christians: Modes and Effects of Christianity in the Americas. Klappentext This ethnography--translated from the Portuguese-- describes the first encounters between the Wari' Indians and whites, and is the only monographic study to date about the process of contacting a previously isolated indigenous group in the South American Zusammenfassung This vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Orthography xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Other Becoming 1. The Foreigner 25 2. The Enemy 70 3. The White Enemy 110 Part II. In Myth 4. The White Enemy 135 5. The Foreigner, the Dead 146 6. The Enemy 164 7. The Brother-in-Law 175 Part III. We Want People for Ourselves: Pácification 8. The Motives of the Whites 197 9. The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao of the Whites 210 10. "The Enemy Says He's OroNao": Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijien, and OroMon 229 11. The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers 255 Conclusion 301 Notes 321 Bibliography 341 Index 357

Product details

• Authors: Aparecida Vilaca, Aparecida Vilaça
• Assisted by: David Rodgers (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2010
• EAN: 9780822345565
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4556-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole; The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Brasilien, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Bewaffnete Konflikte